OUTDOORSCapital City Weekly Insects are abundant anywhere you look outdoors in Southeast Alaska if you look close enough. Oddly enough, both Alaska Forest Service Entomologist Elizabeth Graham and Alaska Fish and Wildlife Service Biologist John Hudson compared many of their habits and features to scenes from the movie “Alien.”
Even with the insect’s uniqueness, they serve an important role in the food chain — from pollination to feeding other animals and so much more.